Under $100 mechanical keyboard for gaming and typing, possible?

[gr1m]

Oh, I remember that scandal over at Overclock.net lol. It was a batch of dud (read: plastic) i7 920s right?

[instantkamera]

Oh, I remember that scandal over at Overclock.net lol. It was a batch of dud (read: plastic) i7 920s right?

I think they were some type of heavy metal, I know how much the Chinese like to put lead in the their products, but god damn...

[instantkamera]

http://www.gearlog.com/2010/03/hands_on_fake_intel_core_i7-92_1.php

The fan was a fake hunk of plastic, the CPU was an iron or lead type deal.

best comment ever, after the unboxing:

Oh, yeah, this looks legit.  

[gr1m]

So this thread has been active until today without being rated and suddenly it's hit with a 2-star - WHY U HATIN' ON MY THREAD.

[instantkamera]

The funny thing is, the star ratings are applied to so few threads that even a one star makes the thread stick out like a sore thumb, thus potentially driving views up.

[gr1m]

Should I sell my current PC whole local and start over. I'm liking the look of these new GTX 460s and want a really compact, lightweight gaming PC. Phenom II X2 555, mATX board and an SSD with a GTX 460 1GB. It'll outperform my current one by a bit too. In a tiny case. So cuuuuute.

[gr1m]

Lol, cool update bro:

I received a confirmation e-mail last night at around 11 PM that NCIX had received my keyboard. I said, "Good, I'll call them in the morning to ask them to test my replacement before shipping it", since their phone lines close at 5 PM like most stores. It turned out to be one of "those" nights and I woke up at 4 PM the next day. Turned on my computer to find that my replacement had already been shipped. Called and found out that (logically), it's too late to check the keyboard since they already shipped it.

Oh well.

[gr1m]

If all goes well, my keyboard should arrive tomorrow. Now, do Cherry keycaps fit all Cherry keyboards? I like the look of black keycaps with black font on them, a sort of stealth look. Double-shot keycaps are keycaps with two layers of plastic, essentially making them twice as sturdy as normal keycaps? Do they sell double-shot black Cherry switch keycaps with black labels? How expensive would it be?

[ch_123]

Assuming we are talking about G80 and G81 caps then the answer is "For the most part, yes"

There are two potential problem points -

A) The Caps Lock on a lot of Cherry keyboards has the notch further to the left than a lot of non-Cherry made Cherry MX keyboards.

B) The mounting mechanism for larger keys like space bar and shift is different in many cases.

[gr1m]

So the replacement is here and it works fine. No sticking switches. How I missed these Blacks. Mmmmm.

[gr1m]

And according to Ripster, I'm a German masochist for liking Cherry Blacks.

[gr1m]

The keyboard isn't sitting flush with my desk. There's play on the top left and bottom right corners...

[instantkamera]

oh-oh... here we go...

[gr1m]

I'm kind of sick of being mechanical-less so I'm going to try ignoring it. Or bending the keyboard to fix the play.

[gr1m]

Lololol never mind. My keyboard sits where the case is on my desk and my guess is that the case flexes the desk slightly because placing the keyboard dead center in front of my monitor eliminates the play.

[gr1m]

Alright, that was just a lie to make myself feel better. The keyboard actually is lopsided. Sticking a bunch of sheets of paper under the bottom right corner rubber foot stops the play. Any ideas on how to permanently fix this?

[gr1m]

Are mechanical keyboards normally like this? Or is it a Steelseries QC issues? (By "like this" I mean plagued with problems). I understand that sticking switches happen, nobody is perfect and getting the keyboard replaced was easy. However, the entire body of the keyboard being lopsided? (From what I can see, the rubber feet are all of equal height so I don't think it's a problem with the rubber feet).

[Manyak]

Alright, that was just a lie to make myself feel better. The keyboard actually is lopsided. Sticking a bunch of sheets of paper under the bottom right corner rubber foot stops the play. Any ideas on how to permanently fix this?

grab a hold of your keyboard with one hand on each end and twist it like an ice tray

[gr1m]

I did that a few times (and one of them with pure rage flowing through my veins out of sheer annoyance that both mechanical keyboards I have owned have had problems none of my rubber domes exhibited, which I can assure you was a lot of rage). It helps somewhat but it just reduces the issue instead of getting rid of it.

[gcogger]

Alright, that was just a lie to make myself feel better. The keyboard actually is lopsided. Sticking a bunch of sheets of paper under the bottom right corner rubber foot stops the play. Any ideas on how to permanently fix this?

Get some sugru and build up the foot in one corner

[gr1m]

Sounds cool. However, I think my initial desk statement was more correct. In the middle of my desk and on another desk, the stack of papers under the bottom right foot causes the bottom left and top right sides to have massive amounts of play. Removing the stack of paper allows for the keyboard to sit flush. On top of that, I measured the height of the rubber feet and all 4 are identical. I also measured the angles of the two sloping bars on the bottom (on which the rubber feet rest) and those are the same as well.

I was probably being overly nitpicky because my first one was broken.

[gr1m]

Yeah, that settles it. The thing sits as solid as a concrete block on the living room's mahogany coffee table. When in doubt, blame Ikea and not the mechanical keyboard.

[gr1m]

Any ideas on how to clean dirt out of etched keycap grooves?

[phillip]

you already got it dirty?

[gr1m]

you already got it dirty?

Yes. Hands washed and all. Maybe it's the design of the 6Gv2 or maybe my skin produces excessive oil and stuff?

[phillip]

time to start wearing some gloves D: